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Transportation recently surpassed electricity production as the largest carbon dioxide emitter. Trees can reduce environmental impact while calming traffic, encouraging walking, decreasing aggressive driving and extending the life of pavement.

Case Studies

“Planners who succeed tend to be opportunistic... It is, in a way, a creative awareness of the many linkages that exist among the variety of social, political, environmental, and economic issues that confront planners in their everyday work.”
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The EPA has long supported green infrastructure and developed a strategic (GI) agenda to guide its support of communities. This document outlines key objectives EPA will pursue to support community efforts to build green infrastructure. Through this strategy, EPA aims to increase national and local capacity to evaluate the role of GI and the benefits that GI can provide. The objectives of the strategy are organized within five major focus areas: Federal coordination; Clean Water Act regulatory support; Research and information exchange; Funding and financing; and capacity building.